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Sikhs welcome US decision not to take off turbans at airports
Punjab Newsline ^ | October 17, 2007

Posted on 10/20/2007 12:21:02 PM PDT by camerakid400

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To: camerakid400

“Sikhs have welcomed the steps taken by the TSA authorities to correct the policy of indiscriminate screening of Turbans at the airports.”

Will Catholic nuns be allowed to keep their habits on?


21 posted on 10/20/2007 2:21:40 PM PDT by 353FMG (Government is the opiate of the masses.)
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To: DevSix

“It is complete nonsense the numbers of Muslims we’ve hired at our airports.....”

It has become easy for an Al-Qaeda member to pay a night visit to one of these Muslim security people and tell them to look the other way when a terrorist wants to board a plane or else something dreadful may happen to a family member. This PC nonsense is going to get a lot of people killed.


22 posted on 10/20/2007 2:33:47 PM PDT by 353FMG (Government is the opiate of the masses.)
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To: Kakaze

If I HAVE TO TAKE OFF MY SHOES....the Sikh’s can take off their TURBANS! This is crazy!


23 posted on 10/20/2007 2:40:32 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: 3AngelaD
more and more Islamic terrorists will start wearing a Sikh turban

They wouldn't dare. They would stand out like a sore thumb, for one thing, but they wouldn't want an actual Sikh to spot them.

24 posted on 10/20/2007 2:43:41 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 years later we're still sitting on the ground)
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To: camerakid400
The new policy is a direct response to Sikh concerns, raised after the TSA in August listed "bulky" headwear such as cowboy hats, berets or turbans should be patted down.

If I have read this article correctly, only Sikh-style turbans are off the list, and cowboy hats, etc., are still subject to search. Bah.

I know at least one Sikh who wears a baseball cap sometimes instead of a turban. The important thing to him is to keep his head covered, not that it be covered by a turban.

25 posted on 10/20/2007 2:49:56 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Why wouldn’t they dare? They dare to do a lot of things. And why would they stand out like a sore thumb? They would be swarthy guys in regulation Sikh turbans. Do Sikhs have some kind of secret posture that allows other Sikhs to detect impostors from afar? Are the TSA folks trained in this detection method? Since we have so graciously said, go ahead, we won’t mess with your turbans, I think turban-wearing non-Sikh Muslims are probably already out there getting on airplanes.


26 posted on 10/20/2007 2:51:48 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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Do Sikhs have some kind of secret posture that allows other Sikhs to detect impostors from afar?

If they told then it wouldn't be a secret, but even then nobody can impost Sikhs.

27 posted on 10/20/2007 2:56:25 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 years later we're still sitting on the ground)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

True. I don’t think that was typical of Sikh behavior, but those particular perps were certainly far out on the terrorist spectrum.


28 posted on 10/20/2007 3:38:55 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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